proletariˈzation
[f. F. prolétaire proletaire + -ize + -ation.]
= proletarianization. Also ˈproletarize v. trans.; ˈproletarized ppl. a.
| 1918 Times 19 Aug. 5/6 We are drifting towards the complete proletarization of the official classes. 1920 E. Antonelli Bolshevist Russia i. iii. 80 The theory of ‘proletarizing’ the peasants was never abandoned. 1952 Gerth & Martindale tr. Weber's Anc. Judaism i. ii. 56 Indebted or landless, hence, proletarized Israelites. 1968 P. B. Austin On being Swedish xiii. 86 The sinister cleavage between highbrow and lowbrow, the proletarization of the soul which lies at the root of so many of the western world's spiritual and even material ills, is here virtually unknown. 1975 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 12 The real aim is the proletarisation of society. |